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Just my opinion and guess, but it's been hinted at many times....his agent overplayed it all, and Kenny being Kenny probably went along with it assuming he had all the cards to play. They ran out.
He also was on his way out of the door at Honda, between Chase, Jett and Hunter there just is not room for him there he will never be their priority again after Chase's season last year and the Lawrence race result/marketing machine they are. Im sure among other things he just saw the writing on the wall.
Hes a guy that can win races he will get paid one way or another, his Redbull deal is obviously big bucks too considering it wasnt even a consideration to leave them to get on a conflicting sponsored team.
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Of course, it wouldn’t be liveried up ‘WSX’, it’d be their Partners- ‘Amazon AWS, Penrite, Boost Mobile, Red Bull Kawasaki’
Imagine it, Put in a great showing in the US series and fans eyes will follow him all summer in the WSX too.
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He would 100% drop red bull if needed to ride the bike he wants on a factory Team.
Keep in mind red bull has spent some serious money trying to get Kennys health right and after a few years of KR going Britney Spears on the internet, I'm sure red bull would be okay with the split.
It's rumored Red Bull is not as stoked on him as they once were.
All publicly available information points to the whole "face of WSX" thing as conjecture at most.
On his way out the door at Honda? It's a fact he was offered a contract, and turned it down. That's "out the door" to you?
Opinions are one thing, but the amount of people on this site just spouting their opinions as fact is worse than ever.
Like what besides the sprocket gate and that one cringey post about not quitting?
Also, he didn't back it up. His season went just like they have the last few years.
The sprocket post was a bigger deal than you're making it man, the industry is tiny and stuff like that, deleted or not, is not forgotten.
There are many many other interviews and sound bites from him along the same lines. "I don't even have to be out there" and stuff like that.
If you had a million dollars to throw at a rider as a base salary, is that the guy you'd throw it at? I doubt it...
I just think he's painted himself into an awkward corner as far as the factories and big name sponsors go.
Also I’m not sure Ken is the “most marketable 450 guy”, seeing that he has not won any championship in several seasons- in fact I’m not sure what “marketable” means anyway to someone who ended their relationship they way Ken did with the largest motorcycle manufacturer.
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Not going to happen, but dang that would be fun to watch.
To know what the worlds fastest guys honestly think about stock bikes would be very interesting.
So much of what the pros do/feel/have is unavailable to us- we don’t carry their speed, jump as far/high, blitz whoops or have the super-trick equipment. Basically whatever they do in mx is unrelatable for most of us.
But, the one thing I can do that is completely relatable to Kenny, is ride a YZ450. So to know what he thinks of it would be super interesting.
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